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A WORD FROM THE CEO Dear Lubbock Symphony Patrons, How wonderful it is to have you here for our second Masterworks concert of the Lubbock Symphony 2020-2021 Season! This evening’s performance is, hopefully, a nostalgic journey back to childhood as we present Prokofiev’s marvelous telling of Peter and the Wolf. Our narrator for the story will be the Honorable Judge Mark Hocker, and we’re so grateful for his participation for these performances. We’ll open the concert with Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll.

As we are still practicing a safe concert experience, we ask that your masks remain on while in The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences.

Our deepest gratitude to tonight’s sponsor, Prosperity Bank, for their generous support of this performance. Prosperity Bank’s sponsorship makes it possible to bring world-class symphonic performances to Lubbock and the South Plains.

As the LSO prepares for many exciting opportunities on the horizon, we will be extending information in the coming weeks about how you can empower our mission with a monthly gift.

Monthly gifts allow the LSO to plan effectively for the future and create more incredible artistic experiences. If you’d like to know more about participating in our monthly gift drive, please call (806) 762-1688.

Join us on March 9 for our next Sound! chamber concert that will take place in the Crickets Theatre here at Buddy Holly Hall.

The Sound! series is curated by Dr. Peter Fischer and promises to be an incredible musical adventure.

On March 27, we’ll meet again in the Helen Devitt Jones Theatre for Video Games Live. With the awesome soundtracks and graphics from your favorite games, this will be fun for gamers young and old. Bring your family for this special pops performance by the LSO. Thanks for letting us share our music with you!

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A WORD FROM THE chair Dear Symphony Friends, On behalf of the Board of Directors, Maestro David Cho, our musicians and staff, welcome to the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra’s second Masterworks Concert of the 2020-2021 season, Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf!

Growing up in the 70s and 80s in Houston, my family home was filled with an eclectic assortment of music including Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Elvis, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond and Buddy Holly, to name just a few. Our house had vinyl and tape, both 8-track and cassette, but some of my fondest memories would be traveling downtown to hear the Houston Symphony perform at Jones Hall. Today, my daughter uses Spotify to curate her own playlists from a surprisingly wide variety of artists and composers. Thankfully, she also appreciates classical music, and especially our Lubbock Symphony Orchestra.

The importance of introducing school-aged children to the beauty of symphonic music remains, and I’m pleased to share with you that this week’s performance of Peter and the Wolf has been recorded for distribution and was streamed to thousands of school children right here in Lubbock. I hope this musical experience will spark a lifetime of engagement with the arts, especially with classical and symphonic music.

We want to acknowledge and greatly thank our 74th season concert sponsor, Prosperity Bank. The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra is only able to bring our community these great works thanks to the generous financial support of our concert sponsors, foundations friends, and you, our loyal patrons.

We hope you enjoy this performance, and that you will join us again at The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences on Saturday, March 27 for Video Games Live, and again on May 1 for Gustav Holst’s epic orchestral suite, The Planets.

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LETTER FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR Dear Friends of the Lubbock Symphony, This week has been a wonderful journey beginning with our Education Concert, a video streamed to our young audiences, culminating in tonight’s live Masterworks concert. Our impeccable Honorable Mark Hocker and the musicians of the Lubbock Symphony brought to life one of the most beloved musical fairy tales, Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.

I truly love the work because it speaks to audiences of all generations. It taught me lessons this week that I didn’t quite fathom when I heard Leonard Bernstein’s rendition during my formative years.

As we are gradually increasing the size and length of concerts, I would like to commend everyone’s effort to make every concert both memorable and safe.

Tonight, we are pairing the Prokofiev piece with one of most beautiful chamber works by Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll. It was a love song, written as a gift to his wife Cosima.

I hope you find the experience of this amazing facility as incredible as the music performed by your Lubbock Symphony. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Most sincerely,

David Cho, Music Director

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DAVID IN-JAE CHO Winner, 2007 Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition

Born in Seoul, Korea, David immigrated to the United States in 1985.

David received a variety of music lessons during his childhood in Palos Verdes, California, before focusing his energy exclusively on the piano.

He later attended Oberlin College and Conservatory where he received his Bachelor of Music in piano performance. In 1996, David won the E. Nakamichi Concerto Competition at the Aspen Music Festival and was awarded the Arthur Dann Prize at the Oberlin Conservatory.

In 1999, while acquiring his Master of Music in piano performance at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, David was invited

by Robert Spano and Seiji Ozawa to attend the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center as a Merrill Lynch Conducting Fellow. David was then invited by Larry Rachleff to study at Rice University where he served as guest conductor for the Shepherd School Orchestras while acquiring his Master of Music in instrumental conducting. David was subsequently invited by the Vienna Philharmonic to serve as an assistant conductor.

As the recipient of the Karajan Fellowship, David has enjoyed residencies at the annual Salzburg Festival in Austria. In 2003, David was invited by Leonard Slatkin to participate in the National Conducting Institute during which time he made his début with the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

During the 2003-2004 season, David was selected to spend a year as the conducting fellow of the new world symphony under the mentorship of Michael Tilson Thomas. While on tour with the New World Symphony in New York City, David made his Carnegie Hall début conducting works by Copland and Tchaikovsky. During the orchestra’s Rome tour, David made his début at the Academy of Santa Cecilia conducting works by Luciano Berio and John Adams. David was then invited by his mentor, Larry Rachleff, to serve as the resident conductor of the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra from 2004-2006. During the 2006-2007 season, David held the bruno walter resident conductor chair with the ensemble.

During his tenure as the associate conductor of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera (2006-2011), David won first prize at the Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico City which resulted in numerous conducting engagements in Europe, Asia and South America. He has conducted the symphonies of Seattle, Houston, Austin, Memphis, Fort Wayne, Baton Rouge and Shreveport. He has collaborated with such guests artist as Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Joshua Bell, Frederica von Stade, Sarah Chang, Daniel Müller-Schott, Jennifer Koh, Leila Josefowicz, Jennifer Frautschi and Alexander Kobrin. During previous summers, David made appearances at the Aspen Music Festival and the Grand Teton Music Festival.

After heralded guest appearances with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra in 2007 and 2009, David was appointed as the orchestra’s seventh music director in 2011. He began his tenure with the LSO in the 2012-2013 season and is now actively involved in community engagements.

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Meet MARK Hocker, guest narrator Today’s narrator, Mark Hocker, is a graduate of Texas A&M University and Texas Tech University School of Law. He has practiced law for over 20 years and presently serves as Judge of Lubbock County Court at Law No. 1. He is married to his college sweetheart, Heather, and is the proud father of Mary Elizabeth, a student at Lubbock High.

When asked to narrate Peter and the Wolf, Judge Hocker eagerly agreed, saying how much he loves the piece. “One of my most cherished memories is of sitting in my mother’s lap listening to Prokofiev’s story of Peter and his magical woodland friends brought to life by the flute, the oboe, the clarinet, and all the instruments of the forest. I am honored to accompany the talented musicians of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra and my dear friend, Maestro David Cho. I hope today’s performance fills Buddy Holly Hall and all of your hearts with great joy.”

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Tonight’s Program RICHARD WAGNER (1813 - 1883)

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Siegfried Idyll

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Peter and the Wolf

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program notes Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll At one time or another, we have all received Christmas, birthday, or other holiday gifts that, to borrow a phrase from Marie Kondo, “don’t spark joy.”

While you know that these gifts are offered with love and you appreciate the care taken to wrap them up in bright shiny paper, it can be difficult to feign enthusiasm over socks, underwear, or a handknit sweater in olive, orange, and purple stripes from your Great Aunt Agatha. They are the gifts that provoke responses like “How nice!,” “How very thoughtful!,” and (ironically) “Oh, you shouldn’t have!” Occasionally, however, someone gives us that one perfect present that is so beautiful and heartfelt that you completely forget the Ghosts of Lame Gifts Past, and revel in the love and joy of what you have received.

Cosima Liszt-d’Agoult, born December 24, 1837, might herself have been such a Christmas present. She was the second child of the tempestuous liaison between virtuoso pianist/composer Franz Liszt and Countess Marie d’Agoult. In 1857, Cosima married the pianist/conductor Hans von Bülow, a devoted supporter of the operas of Richard Wagner; von Bülow would later conduct the premieres of both Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg. The couple had two children, but by all accounts their marriage had lacked passion from the beginning.

In 1863, Cosima left von Bülow to live with Wagner, taking the children with her. In this relationship, both Cosima and Wagner both found their perfect life partner. Their union produced three children, all named after characters from Wagner’s operas: Isolde, Eva, and Siegfried. It is one of the mysteries of music history that while von Bülow never spoke to the composer again, he continued to conduct and advocate for Wagner’s music for the rest of his career.

In July of 1870, von Bülow finally granted Cosima a divorce, and she and Wagner married in Lucerne, Switzerland on August 25. The newly married couple settled into Tribschen, Wagner’s villa overlooking Lake Lucerne. Wagner was working to complete his epic masterpiece of four operas, The Ring of the Nibelung, while rejoicing in his new marriage and domestic happiness after years of scandal, frustration and exile.

Cosima’s diary entry for Christmas Day, 1870, their first Christmas as a legally married couple, tells of her husband’s tender and romantic birthday present: About this day, my children, I can tell you nothing—nothing about my feelings, nothing about my mood, nothing, nothing. I shall just tell you, dryly and plainly, what happened. When I woke up I heard a sound, it 23

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program notes continued grew ever louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music! After it had died away, R. came in to me with the five children and put into my hands the score of his “Symphonic Birthday Greeting.” I was in tears, but so, too, was the whole household; R. had set up his orchestra on the stairs and thus consecrated our Tribschen forever! The Tribschen Idyll—thus the work is called.

Wagner had managed to compose this touching birthday gift to his wife while concurrently working to complete the final Ring opera, Götterdämmerung. He prevailed upon conductor Hans Richter, another lifelong Wagner supporter, to rehearse the work with fourteen members of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich so as not to spoil the surprise. Richter, a pianist, taught himself the trumpet part and took part in the first performance; he even rowed out into the middle of Lake Lucerne to practice to keep Cosima from hearing it. On Christmas morning Wagner snuck the fifteen musicians into his villa, arranged them on the staircase outside Cosima’s bedroom, and led them in the first performance of what would later be known as the Siegfried Idyll. The work received two more performances that day, along with an arrangement of the Wedding March from Lohengrin and the Beethoven Septet.

Wagner inscribed the original score of the work with the words “Tribschen Idyll with Fidi-Birdsong and Orange Sunrise, presented as a symphonic birthday greeting to his Cosima by her Richard, 1870.” “Fidi” was the family’s pet name for their young son Siegfried, the “birdsong” is a reference to the trumpet melody heard near the work’s conclusion, and the “orange sunrise” refers to the bright orange wallpaper in the couple’s bedroom, which glowed brightly when the morning sun began to peek through the windows. The work was renamed the Siegfried Idyll only in 1877, when Wagner, perpetually short of money, sold the rights to his publisher.

We don’t often describe Wagner’ s music as “intimate,” but the Siegfried Idyll merits that description, both in its generally quiet textures, and in the musical references to the couple’s family life. While the work draws extensively from the music Wagner wrote for Siegfried, the third opera of The Ring of the Nibelung, the work is not programmatic, and the themes are treated differently in the Idyll than in the opera. Prominent among the melodies is a phrase Brunnhilde sings in Act 3, “Ewig war ich (I always was, I always am, always in sweet yearning bliss),” heard in the warm glow of the strings as the initial theme of the work. A subsequent oboe melody, accompanied by graceful feather-light strings, has its origins as a lullaby, “Schlaf, Kindchen, Schlafe,” jotted down on New Year’s Eve, 1868. Other motifs from the opera are abundant, but the Siegfried Idyll is no mere potpourri of opera excerpts, but a truly symphonic composition where ideas are presented, developed, intertwined and then presented in their original guise. After rising to a passionate climax, the warm glow of the final pages envelops orchestra and audience it its gentle embrace.

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program notes continued Wagner held the Siegfried Idyll to be a favorite among his works, and audiences have agreed ever since its first public performance. While it began as a Christmas gift to the composer’s beloved wife, the Siegfried Idyll has proven itself to be a delightful gift that truly keeps on giving.

Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 Prokofiev’s choice to return with his family to the Soviet Union in 1936 as a permanent resident appears on the surface to be one of the most puzzling decisions in all music history. Prokofiev had left his homeland in 1918 with the blessing of Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Soviet People’s Commissar for Education. Prokofiev never expected to return, at least not until the violence and bloodshed of the Bolshevik Revolution had ceased and a stable new government had formed. Throughout his travels in the West, Prokofiev had been immensely popular, even receiving an exorbitant offer of $25,000 to live in Hollywood and compose for the movies. He had many triumphant premieres of his music, like his opera The Love for Three Oranges, premiered to great acclaim in Chicago in 1923. He had numerous concert engagements as a pianist and as a conductor in the Americas and in Western Europe. Why would he subject himself to the rule of the iron-fisted dictator Josef Stalin, putting both himself and his family at such great risk?

The answer lies both in the details of Prokofiev’s career and in the aims of the Soviet government concerning the arts. For all of Prokofiev’s hard work as composer, conductor and pianist, his career was not advancing very quickly. Upon his arrival from the Soviet Union in 1918, he had been hailed throughout the West as part of the cutting edge avant-garde, along with his countryman Stravinsky. Towards the end of the 1920s, his star had begun to diminish, and he felt homesick for his native land. By the 1930s, with both the United States and Europe in the throes of the Great Depression, working in a land where the government controlled the arts and the paychecks were regular may have not seemed so bad.

The U.S.S.R. also made subtle efforts to bring their native son home over the course of nearly a decade, hoping to use him as a “poster boy” for the new nation’s artistic vision. Rather than the repressive conservative land of artistic “Socialist Realism” that it would become under Stalin, the Soviet Union in the 1920s was a place of great artistic freedom for modernism in the arts. Exhibitions of modern art were commonplace, and Moscow saw one of the earliest productions of Alban Berg’s brutal and gruesome opera Wozzeck in Leningrad in 1927. Starting with his first concert tour of the U.S.S.R. in 1927, Prokofiev became caught up in the nation’s forward-

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program notes continued looking artistic attitudes before the Stalin Terror took hold. He gave piano recitals for workers in factories and on collective farms, often wearing simple workers clothes and boots instead of a tuxedo. He remarked that “When you arrive in the U.S.S.R. from abroad, you feel something completely different. Here, dramatic works are needed, and there is no doubt what subject they should address: the subject must be heroic and constructive (it must be creative, not destructive). This is what our era demands.”

The Soviets did their best to help Prokofiev return over the next several years, luring him with concerts and commissions for new works, like the ballet Romeo and Juliet, written in 1935 for the Kirov Ballet. In 1936, Prokofiev and his family left Paris to return to the Soviet Union, where the composer would remain until his death on March 5, 1953 – the same day that Stalin died.

One of the happiest developments for Prokofiev’s family upon their return to Moscow was their discovery of the Moscow Children’s Theatre, and its visionary director Natalia Satz. She was passionately devoted to the cause of the best possible productions for children, without the material being childish or condescending.

The Prokofievs had first attended the theater to see a children’s opera called The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish, which enchanted the two boys and their parents. They returned to the theatre many times, often as guests of Satz in her private box. Eventually, Satz asked Prokofiev if he would write a work for her theater that would introduce children to the instruments of the orchestra. Prokofiev agreed, but rejected the rhymed text that was commissioned from the children’s author Antonina Sakonskaya and came up with a prose text of his own.

While originally Peter was to be a Young Pioneer (the Soviet version of a Boy Scout), the political themes were downplayed, and the universal themes of cooperation and resourcefulness were brought to the fore.

While the first performance received a lukewarm reception, Prokofiev’s Peter and his lupine adversary are now popular all over the world, featuring in hundreds of concerts and dozens of recordings since its premiere. The famous narrators of Peter on record range from Eleanor Roosevelt and Sean Connery to Alice Cooper and “Weird Al” Yankovic.

Above all, Prokofiev’s genius of creating a tale that both captivates young imaginations and teaches them about the instruments of the orchestra is undiminished after over eighty years. His deft melodic sketches of Peter, his friends the bird, duck and cat, his grumpy Grandfather, the menacing wolf, and the somewhat trigger-happy hunters both enchant listeners and memorably demonstrate the sounds and characteristics of the instruments. Like J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Prokofiev’s Peter will never grow up, and listeners of all ages are all the richer for it.

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Brandon Bailey Virginia Baker Ian & Shelley Barba Nancy & Don Bartlett Sally Barfield Nancy & Don Bartlett J. Alton Bauerle Blayne Beal & Monty Long Jose Beceiro Mike & Sharon Bennett Pieter Bergstein Robert & Nancy Bethea Christy Bigham Caroline Bishop Dr. and Mrs. Eric & Janis Blackwell Pam Blassingame Clint & Tracy Boal Sandra Boatright Walter Borst Bonnie Bourland Ray Box Patricia Brown Paul Brown Tracee Brown Virgie Bryant Katie Burnes John Cain Bruce Callender Mrs. Pat Cantrell Paul Carlson Ursula Caswell Mike & Carrissa Cleavinger Dr. Hua Chen, Dr. Grace Sun and Family Lynette Clinton Capt. and Mrs. Ryan Cobb Lou Conner Melissa Collier Sue Couch Merinda Condra Melinda Corwin Sophia Crawford Jim Cummings James & Carol Wallace Jan Davis Dr. Jewell & Kathy Davis David Dea Elen Deering Gary Dennis Carla Densford Betty Dotts Peggy Dyess Linda Edwards Steve Edwards 35

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Lynn Forbess Larry Fountain Carol Fruge Sheryl Galt Gurdev & Savita Gill Angie Graham Richard & Ingrid Greene Aly Gwinn Cheryl Hall & John McCollum Donna Hamilton & Richard Burgess Jim Hartman Terry Hawkins Ryan & Melynn Henry Randal Hester John Hill Dr. Celeste Hollands Doug Hutton Hon. Carl Isett & Hon. Drue Farmer Isett Natalia Jackson Catherine Jai Greg Johnson Lowell Johnson Carolyn & BL Jones Dale Jones John Jones Don Kidd Sharon Kingston Kristen Kothmann Frank Lacey Sam Lanham Jim Leary Wendell Leatherwood Mr. & Mrs. Gary Linker Betty Lowder Donna Lyde Patricia Malin Molly Manning Marianna Surface Markham Steve Massengale Susan Matchett Myrtle McDonald Kyle McFarren Thomas McGovern Marguerite McWilliams Edith Merrick Boyd & Becky Milner Diane Naylor Thomas Nicholson Tom & Gwen Nichols Don & Robin Parks Curtis Parrish George Payne Trois Payne Patricia Perkins

Joy Perry Glen Phipps James Powell Lisa Powell Ron Presley Kristin Raimondo David Ray - Brick Doctor of Lubbock Robert Reynolds John Rigg Richard Roof Robert Royall and Diana Pierce Elizabeth Sabet PCC, ACSLC Myron Sanders Karen Savage Carrie Schlehuber Mary Jo Shaw Charles Skibell Helen Smith Jim & Donna Smith Travis Springer Lyn and Mark Stoll Tom Stone Dr. & Mrs. Russell J. Stratton Kathryn R Suchy Mrs. Kathy Thomas Jack Thompson Paul Thornton Theresa Trost Al & Gail Tutino Jennifer Underwood Holly Vinson Lynn Vitatoe Marylou Walden Sally Walton Jonna Ward James Welch Richard Wetzel Herman Wheatley Lonnie Wheeler Dana Whitaker Ralph Willingham Mr. and Mrs. Larry Willis Jane Ann Wilson Nadine Wilson Tanya Wofford Carolyn Wooten Gay Word Robert York

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MEMORIALS & HONORARIUMS The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges donations received during the 2020-2021 season in honor of the following:

David Cho Francis Christmann Dr. Marvin Platten

Rachel Armstrong Thomas Toni E. Wallingford

If you would like to honor an individual or organization important to you, please send your tax-deductible donation to the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, 601 Avenue K; Lubbock, TX 79401.

ENCORE SOCIETY The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following members of the Encore Society: Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Dabezies This society is open to anyone who wishes to make a multi-year pledge of at least five years to the Symphony. This is a great way to support the LSO. By pledging now, you enable us to plan for our future. Call the LSO office at 806-762-1688 to find out how you may become an Encore Society member.

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ADVISORY COUNCIL, PAST CHAIRS Jack M. Lewis

1946

John R. Kreiger

1985

W.P. Clement

1947

Roger Key

1986

Charles E. Maedgen, Jr.

1948

Edwin E. Merriman

1987

Roy Bass

1949

Owen McWhorter, Jr.

1988

Rex Webster

1950

Frank Newton

1989

Marion Key

1951

Frank Anderson

1990-91

W.R. Sewell

1952

Kay Sanford

1991

J.C. Reynold

1953

Paul Meyer

1991-92

James L. Quicksall, Jr.

1954

Robert L. Stripling

1992-93

Asher Thompson

1955-56

Jim Ratliff

1993-94

Richard G. Richards

1957

Coffee Conner

1995-96

Jack Kastman

1958

Alan Henry

1996-97

Joe J. Moise

1959

William D. Armstrong

1997-98

J. Harmon Jenkins

1960

Susan Boling

1998-99

George C. Miller

1961

Curtis Griffith

1999-00

Lonnie Langston

1962

DeWayne Pierce

2000-01

John Witcomb

1963

Mike Cunningham

2001-02

O.W. English

1964

Margaret Lutherer

2002-03

Asher Thompson

1965-68

Chris Barnette

2003-05

Troy Myers

1969

Catherine S. Porter

2005-06

Arthur E. Gamble

1970

Ray Fargason

2006-08

Charley Pope

1975-77

Emily Ratcliff

2008-09

C.B. Carter

1978

Brad Green

2009-11

Robert E. Norris

1979

Peter G. Daia

2011-13

Dean James Allen

1980-81

Kirk McLaughlin

2013-15

Robert L. Stripling

1982

Harry Zimmerman

2015-17

Charley Pope

1983-84

Shannon Taliaferro

2017-19

community partners LSO is grateful for the generous support of the following foundation, community, and public partners.

Affordable Storage

City Bank

All Saints Episcopal School

Cleaning Services of Lubbock

Anderson Bros Jewelers

Community Foundation of West Texas

Atmos Energy Ballet Lubbock Benchmark

Covenant Health CRI

Betenbough Homes

D. Williams & Co.

Bolinger, Segars, Gilbert & Moss, LLP

Drest by Scott Malouf Evelyn M. Davies Foundation

Brandon Guitar Studio

Evensky & Katz Wealth Management

Carillon Chicken Express

Farnsworth Family Orhtodontics First United Methodist Church 42

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Ghandour, Elias M.D., P.A.

Phi Beta Kappa Assn. of West Texas & Eastern New Mexico

Happy State Bank

Endowment to Benefit LSO Youth Outreach

HCHT Helen Jones Foundation

Pinkie’s

Hill & Ioppolo

Plains Capital Bank

KCBD

Prosperity Bank

Kingsgate Center (Graco Real Estate)

Rea Charitable Trust Robinson & Hamblen General Dentistry

KTTZ 89.1 FM Kuykendall Foundation

Sanders Funeral Home

Lee Lewis

Service Title

Llano Estacado Winery Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts

Sharon Mirll, Exit Realty

Sherick Memorial Home Southwest Snow Services

Lubbock Abstract & Title Co

South Plains College

Lubbock Animal Care Clinic

St. Clair & Massey Orthodontics

Lubbock Arts Alliance

Stewart Title

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Tarpley Music

Lubbock Chorale

Texas Commission on the Arts

Lubbock Community Theatre Lubbock Entertainment and

Performing Arts Association

Texas Tech Club Texas Tech School of Music

Lubbock Moonlight Musicals Lubbock Music Club Lubbock Music Teachers Association

Texas Tech Alumni Association

Lubbock National Bank McPherson Cellars Merrill Lynch MS Doss Foundation MWM Architects, Inc. Officewise Orlando’s Italian Restaurant Otto’s Granary

Texas Tech University Presidential Lecture & Performance Series Texas Women for the Arts The CH Foundation Tif Holmes Photography TTU eLearning TTU Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts

TTU Theatre and Dance United Supermarkets University Medical Center

Overhead Door Co.

Yellow House Dental & Implant Center

Overton Hotel

Youth Orchestras of Lubbock

Parkhill, Smith & Cooper

YWCA

Pediatric Associates of Lubbock Pennington, Bass & Associates 45

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lso endowments The CH Foundation Endowment Helen DeVitt Jones Endowment for Education LSO Endowment for Musician Fees and Education Shelley Hall Nelson Endowment for Musicians’ Salaries Janeen Holmes Gilliam Chair for English Horn Jones Saathoff Family Concertmaster Chair Endowment Lisa Rogers/Alan Shinn Principal Percussion Endowment (by Ann and Craig McDonald) Eugene and Covar Dabazies Principal Bass Endowment Justice Phil and Carla Johnson Principal Second Violin Endowment

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behind the music OFFICERS Heather Hocker Chair Brian Willcutt Chair Elect Katie Salter Treasurer Robb Chapman Secretary Shannon Taliaferro Immediate Past Chair

DIRECTORS

Jane Balch Steve Balch Gilbert Berdine Leen Borno Terri Byrne Maureen Chadwick David Cho Covar Dabezies Patty D’alise Stephen L. Faulk Robin Germany Elias Ghandour Gurdev Gill Barbara Gilley Erin Gregg Sandy Henry Leslie Huckabee Alena Ilyushyna Stacey Kollman Neil Kurtzman Larry Landusky Kendra Lansdell Paula Loveless Barry Mccool Mary Moran Keli Ramsey Alan Shinn Annette Sobel James St. Clair

Jill Stangl Jeremy Steen Robin Talbert Russell Thomasson Davor Vugrin June Wagner Toni Wallingford Pat Wheeler Harry Zimmerman

ADMINISTRATION Galen Wixson President & CEO David Cho Music Director Marilee Bybee Box Office Assistant Anh Collins Box Office Assistant Amie Dean Marketing & Communications Coordinator Amelia Jamieson Graphic Designer Corey Dolter Stage Manager Emily Gavaghan Box Office Manager Gary Hudson Personnel & Operations Manager Jess Jackson Director of Development and Communications Jeanette Markee Education Director Suzanne Rasco Director of Accounting Dana Wixson Librarian 50

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a word from the lubbock symphony guild president Dear Patrons, Thank you for attending tonight’s performance.

We appreciate your support of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. Our 2020-2021 season is sure to be magnificent. We are so excited to experience the wonder of music with you this season.

Tonight’s performance, and every performance since 1952, has been made possible in part by the support of the Lubbock Symphony Guild. For 68 years, Guild members have donated their time and resources to keep symphonic music flourishing in West Texas.

If you cherish the talent of our spectacular Orchestra and value the educational and cultural contributions they provide to our community, I invite you to consider becoming a member of our guild. For more information, please visit our website at www.LubbockSymphonyguild. com.

Fondly,

Kendra Lansdell, President Lubbock Symphony Guild

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Lubbock Symphony Guild Senior Debutantes

Front Row Left to Right - Lauren Cleckler, Tristin Renfroe, Kara Ashworth, Taylor McCall, Erin Crawford 2nd Row Left to Right - Abby Hamilton, Grace Feist, Audrey Crawford, Kiley Irlbeck, McKeely Underwood, Lindsey Frick, Emily Hill, Maely Thomasson 3rd Row Left to Right - Gracie Payne, Jenna Nalle, Brooke Wright, Shay Byrd, Landrey Rowden Madisyn Pastusek, Lyndyn Mosser, Paige Schlehuber, Ellie Brandon, Holly Curry, Brooke Perry Amanda Piel Back Row Left to Right - Addison Skelton, Campbell Kthmann, Audrey Massengale, Elizabeth Eppright, Joelle Staggs, Rose McGinnis, Camille Weindorf, Alexa Najjar, Libby Ashworth Chaney Anderson, Presley Mills, Campbell Wicks, Taylor Tomlinson, Kylie Edwards, Adilynn Graham, Campbell Collier

Lubbock Symphony Guild junior Debutantes

Front Row Left to Right - Leah Vinson, Brylee Burchett, Caylee Props, Carlee Miller 2nd Row Left to Right - Ashlyn Wolf, Natalie Jenkins, Megan Donaway, Chloe Dannevik Raegan Bain, Katherine Herrin, Kellen Kotara, Madelyn Bollens 3rd Row Left to Right - Alexia Elliott, Evan Robert, Annabelle Etchison, Carol Anne Smitherman Carlie Borthwick, Eryn Triplett, Jo Headrick, Meredith Lowe, Emma Brady, Reese Rogers Taylor Glenn Back Row Left to Right - Briana Erculiani, Sarah Kate Rasty, Reagan Hunter, Emma Condra Brentley Williams, Bonnee Busby, Samantha Manning, Blair Boyd, Alexis Wragg, Alexandra Mercer, Vanessa Latham, Lauren Clingman, Ashby Whitaker, Claire Snodgrass Grace Ann Streit, Ava Wilson Not Pictured - Elizabeth Aycock, Elizabeth Farthing, Lindsi Roye

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First United Methodist Church, Lubbock Friends of Music presents the Vesper Concert Series

Become a supporter of the Friends of Music today!

For more than 40 years the Vesper Concert Series has presented the finest musicians from around the world and from our own community.

Your support today is more important than ever.

Your gifts help sustain the Vesper Concert Series.

Please stay mindful of the role that music plays in your soul and in our community.

Vesper Concerts are free and open to the public.

806-763-0781 or fumc.com/concerts

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Lubbock Symphony Guild sophomore Debutantes

Front Row Left to Right - Regan Andrews, Macy Hamel, Sydney Lowe, Kaitlyn Caswell, Ava Hounshell, Halle Henthorn, Abby Harris, Campbell Howe 2nd Row Left to Right - Abigail St. Clair, Maggi Underwood, Chloe Conover, Payton Harrison Ashtyn Bartley, Anna McClendon, Katie Kinnison, Madeline Matthews Back Row Left to Right - Riley Solberg, Portia Clary, Emily Keister, Madison Bigham, Tatum Brown, Natalie Caswell, Kate White, Emily Payne, Ellis Fox, Blakely Biggs, Ellie Kinnison Addisyn Elrod, Sophie Thwaits Not Pictured - Sydney Cranfill, MaeAlice White

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Parkhill, Smith & Cooper is now Parkhill.

For 75 years, our communities have relied on us to provide innovative, collaborative, and relevant solutions for design services.

Our story began in 1945 when three friends took it upon themselves to help West Texas rebuild and recover following World War II. We have been creating inventive, relevant built environments together ever since. This is at the heart of what we do and who we are. We are Building Community and sustaining relationships.

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Things happen. It’s inevitable.

That’s why we never close.

We’re always here for you!

Call Us, Day or Night

(806) 778-3370 or email us at:

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